Subject: [Homestead] Disease-care business decisions
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 13:01:34 -0700
On Dec 4, 2008, at 12:28 PM, sjc wrote:
Now you can make a lot of money, and have the 'best' of records and
previous care.....but if it doesn't suit the insurance company to pay
they have many ways to shut you out believe me.
That is absolutely correct.
It is inherent in the for-profit business model to eliminate all
overhead that does not contribute to profit. In the disease-care
business that includes anything over the expected income from payments
received during the policy member's lifetime. So, a geezer like me is
a bad investment decision for an organ repair or transplant, ugh, or
extensive hospital care, double-ugh--IF I were inclined to send my
health care investment money to such a business model.
If the disease-care system continues as it exists today we will become
an ever-more unhealthy society. As such we will become less productive
and will fall behind more progressive societies. I believe it is true
that we are the only industrial country to not have universal health
care.
Many issues can be debated. What is incontrovertible is that Americans
pay more for so-called health care than any other nation in the world
and receive inferior treatment compared to other industrialized
nations. Nearly forty-six million of our citizens have no health care
beyond emergency services.
Such a condition is shameful. Such a condition is counterproductive.
Such a condition is the result of politics at its worst.
Did you vote for change?
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